Woken up from a nightmare.

"BB! Doli!", she exclaimed and started bawling.

The realisation that they were not around anymore broke her. Then, she woke up. 

"Thank god that was only a dream", she whispered to herself under her breath.

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It was terrible. The worse possible scenario, if you ask me. What's odd is that it was them who died of a mysterious illness. But why did I feel that they weren't around anymore? Or was it fear that it was them. I wonder. 

Adventures in my Head: The Hunt

"We have to go find it!",  I said furiously.

"You will not! It is too dangerous," the professor said furiously while trying to sound calm.

"But!"

"No buts! Now the three of you, go back to your dormitories. Leave such matters to the higher ups. Good Night," she replied sternly.

The three of us sighed, turned our backs and walked out of the office. We reached our dormitories and sat down on the chairs in front of the fireplace.

I said, "How can they stop us from going? If we delay anymore, the chances of finding it wil-"

"Don't worry. You're not the only one who thinks this way," Shane said, cutting into my sentence.

My eyes widened and replied almost immediately, "What?"

"Yeah," Michael said calmly, almost like he was indifferent to the whole matter.

I took a deep breath and asked, "So you guys are saying that you'll join in in this expedition? Even though you'd probably get expelled."

They both nodded. I smiled and replied, "I love you guys."

"So when are we setting off?" asked Shane.

I grinned mischievously and said, "I'm thinking of tonight. We can go prepare all the necessities and head out. I don't want to lose anymore time. Time is a crucial matter."

"Okay. We'll meet here in 30 minutes then?", asked Shane. I nodded in agreement.

"What do you mean by necessities?" asked Michael in a sarcastic tone.

I rolled my eyes and said, "Michael. No time for jokes! You know? Wands, our broomsticks, and enough clothing to keep us warm? And, perhaps some rations."

Michael shrugged and said, "I'm not joking. I'm really asking a question."

"But you sounded really sarcastic though," I said defensively.

"Okay guys! Let's just go prepare. We're wasting time here." Shane said cutting into our conversation.

I felt a little apologetic for making the unnecessary ruckus. I nodded and went up the stairs and back into my room. We met up 30 minutes later in our robes, holding our broomsticks, and we set off.

"It's bloody cold tonight and it's not suppose to be winter yet!", I shouted out. They laughed at my comment as we rode on our broomsticks to our destination.

After flying on our broomsticks for about half an hour, we stopped and I pointed to a castle and said, "This is the place. Or, at least according to the information I got. You guys ready?"

"Yeah," they both replied.

"I'm nervous though." I said taking a breath.

"Don't worry. We're here.", replied Shane putting her hands on my shoulder.

I glanced at her and gave a weak smile. I took a deep breathe and took out my wand. Shane and Michael both took out their wands and we flew towards the castle. As we were flying towards the castle other witches and wizards flew towards us casting spells at us.

I shouted, "Holy!", as we dodged the spells, breaking our formation. We fought back casting different spells. After 10 minutes of never ending spells exchanging, I cast a shield spell around me to deflect the spells coming at me.

Then, I signaled to the Shane and Michael to stop fighting and said, "Let's go! We don't have time for this. We need to preserve our energy!"

They nodded and followed behind me while deflecting the spells coming at them.  We flew towards this window that was opened and closed it behind us. We got off our broom and rest for awhile. Breathing deeply, I said, "What was that about? It's like as if they knew we're coming."

"It's been a long time since I had action like this though," replied Michael, sounding a tad excited.

I smiled in agreement, still trying to catch my breath.

Shane smiled while brushing dust off her robes and said, "Okay. Shall we move on before they find us here?"

Michael and I nodded. We've decided to travel by broomsticks while in the castle since the halls were extremely spacious. Since it was spacious, flying on a broomstick would mean an easier escape during a pinch. We got on our broomsticks, levitated a few inches from the floor, just enough for our feets to not touch the ground, and flew towards the door. The door creaked as we opened it slowly. Shane took a peek outside to see if it was safe enough to leave the room.

She whispered, "Coast is clear."

We lined up in an orderly manner behind Shane, trying our best to not open the door any wider since the door makes a creak. We slowly picked up more speed as we move along the never-ending hallways.

"Where exactly are we going?", Shane asked.

A sudden realisation came to me and I jolted slightly. "Right. Where were we going again?", I whispered to myself. I think I got too caught up with all the action earlier that I've forgotten where we're suppose to go! Then, we heard a voice and footsteps in front of us. We stopped and levitated all the way to the ceiling, trying to hide presence.

Suddenly, someone shouted from behind us, " Hey! Who are you guys? Intruders?!"

The three of us jumped slightly and looked behind us. I felt my heart racing and cold sweat forming on my forehead.

"Get them!"

The wizards casted spells towards us and summoned their broomsticks. We got out our wands, ready for another round of battle.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and opened them again. With a serious expression on my face, I said, "Let's go."

We defended ourselves from the witches and wizards while speeding past them, and through the extremely long and spacious hallway. At the end of the hallway, there was a medium sized hall with a strange man standing in the middle.

He stopped us and said, "The only way to get out of here is to fly through either of these two exits and up to the floors."

My eyebrows furrowed. I know we didn't have time to slowly ponder since the enemies are catching up on us. I shut my eyes and flew to the left exit giving full trust to my gut feeling. They both followed behind me.

As we flew up through the chimney, there were tons of other strange looking humans. I'm not even sure if they are humans, they look like minions instead. We decelerated our flying speed as we looked around our surrounding. My were eyes wide-opened.

"What is this place?", Shane asked.

"The people here looks like the people you see in Kabukicho's arcade.", replied Michael.

"Yeah. Now that you say it, they do. Wait.... this place looks like an arcade!", I replied.


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I abruptly woke up from my dream because everything started getting strange. To be honest, I don't know what exactly we are searching for because it just wasn't explained in my dream. The setting was all victorian at first and it ended up becoming some futuristic arcade in one of Shinjuku's Kabukicho arcade. The strangest thing is, I haven't been watching Harry Potter recently nor have I stepped into any arcade in Japan. I'm also surprised that Shane and Michael even had a cameo in my dream. The awesome part of the dream was actually having real wizard battles and flying on a broomstick. Though, it was much more exciting in my dream. I'm still learning how to better describe everything through writing. I haven't done creative writing in years. I'm trying to read more books to get back all the techniques and whatsnot. So pardon me if there are many loopholes and non descriptive parts. I'm trying. x

Adventures in my Head: Strange encounters

I had a really awesome dream earlier today. It's really strange yet, I woke up feeling really good.

The setting was at old and dirty warehouse but it was actually an arts university. It was some trial class and interview session for an arts major that I applied for. I got bored waiting in the waiting room with all the other students so I decided to explore the school while there was still time. I stumbled upon this seemingly abandoned courtyard. In the middle, lies a huge, non-functioning old and dirty fountain. I'm usually not a brave person in real life but in my dreams, I'm always brave and adventurous. So, I decided to walk towards the old fountain to examine the Romanesque style decorations. All of a sudden, a huge dragon came out of nowhere and started chasing me. Instead of fighting back like what heroes do, I ran for my life because that was the only thing I could do. I ran all the way back to the waiting room where all the other students were. Apparently, I wasn't the only one in cold sweat and out of breath. To my surprise, one of my schoolmates, Martin, was also there. We exchanged looks for a bit and greeted each other. A few minutes later, the headmistress came into the room asking us to go in one by one to her office so she could do an interview with us. The headmistress looks like a modernized version of yubaba from 'Spirited Away'. She had with a different hairstyle and looked less intimidating . She also had white curly bob instead of the bun-up hairstyle. Fashionable. It wasn't long until it was my turn. I was still trying to recover from the horrible encounter at the courtyard. I stood up, trying to make myself look calm and neat and slowly wobbled my way towards the door.

As I touched the door knob, Martin called out to me, "You'll be fine."

I gave him a thumbs up, took a deep breath and turn the door knob. I entered the room, greeted and sat down. She did not seem to be surprised that I was in cold sweat and breathless.

She just replied, "You seem to have had quite an adventure."

I simply nodded and waited for further instructions. She started asking me some questions about myself without looking at me and I answered them. After answering all those mundane questions she finally looked up and asked, "Tell me about the adventure you had earlier".

My eyes widen and replied, "I don't think you'd wouldn't believe it if I told you."

She smiled and told me that if I don't tell her about it, I may not be able to pass this interview. I do not want to fail the interview so I explained what happened to her. Apparently, that whole 'adventure' experience was something that this 'magical arts school' had. If the student was creative enough, strange and magical things would happen. Depending on what sort of 'magical or strange' experience, it will allow the school to know which major is more suitable for the student and the level of creativity the student has.

I woke up from this amazing yet strange dream shortly after explaining and understanding the whole reason for that 'dragon chasing me' experience I had. Sadly, I didn't know what major I ended up taking and I didn't know why my schoolmate was in my dream. It's not like we're really close, and we only had anthropology class together this whole semester. Despite the how strange this whole dream was, it is definitely worth remembering because it has been awhile since I had dreams like that.

I've decided to start a "Adventures in my Head" series on my blog writing about the dreams I had. Perhaps one day, I'll be able to write a whole fantasy novel. lol. Not going to happen. If I have to face a dragon to be accepted in an arts university, I'd rather not.

A dream I had when I was napping.

10 February 2014

Hello. Why am I writing at this time again? Well, that can only mean a few things; either I just woke up from a nap, I decided to be a vampire/an owl and not sleep or that I am bored. Actually, I am bored and I also did woke up from a nap. I also took an after nap shower and I feel really awesome right now!! I usually feel extra icky after a nap, even though it is winter now and there is no way I would sweat when I am sleeping.

Talking about naps, I just had a really strange dream earlier on. It was not even based off from any show that I just watched. Mind you, before I took a nap, I was watching Kuroko No Basuke anime and that dream had nothing to do with basketball matches!

It was some RPG like, but everything got weird from the middle til the end. I'll give you a few hints before I go into detail. (If I could even do up a good story explanation. It has been ages since I did that and I used to be pretty good at it.)

Grasshopper, Books, Train Station and adventure? lol.

It didn't start off like any fantasy or RPG story, or at least this is how much I remember. I'll try my best to do an interesting/exaggerated one so it will be worth reading even for a minute. Mind you, there is no ending because I woke up all of a sudden. Oh well, dreams...

Anyways...



My friends and I were on a mission, an adventure to find something really important. Honestly, I didn't know what I was up to but all I know is we had to travel quite a bit. It was not totally medieval time, it was a mix of a bit medieval and future, which I suppose made everything weird.

We needed to take this train at this station but because of the snow, trains were unable to move. But there was a special emergency transport which I suppose was only for us since the train station was pretty torned down with snow covering almost everything. To my surprise and perhaps a little bit of disgust, it was a huge grasshopper. It was our transport. It not only walks and travels fast on snow, it can fly too. But it wasn't totally an insect but more of a robot made to look like a real grasshopper because we can ride in it and not on it.

The body opened up and the seats inside looked like those similar to an airplane or a shinkansen. It was really comfortable looking. The ride was similar to a train ride so it was pleasant. Not to mention we could fly so it made everything extra cool.

When we reached our destination, getting off was not the same as boarding. We had to get out by an unusual way, laid out. I literally mean the grasshopper robot had to lay eggs and us inside the eggs to get out. There was no station and we were in the air so I suppose that was our parachute at that time. There was no time to waste and we had no choice so we all agreed despite imagining how disgusting it would be.

 We all got ready at our seats and there was a huge vacuum which started sucking us at the other end; the butt of the robot/grasshopper. I closed my eyes prepared myself, the wind was also very strong so I could not open my eyes either.

The next moment when I opened my eyes, I thought everything was not as bad as I thought it would be. I did not realise my surroundings until I started to stretch  because it felt like I slept for quite a long while. (mind you, I was dreaming so I am in fact, sleeping. lol)

I looked around; everything around me was blurry white. That was when I realised, I am in fact in an egg! Whatever the driver said wasn't a lie. I started panicking because I was not told how to get out! I started punching around and poking with my hands hoping it would break the membrane. It took me quite awhile but somehow I managed to tear open one side and the water/goo surrounding me spilled out. It felt disgusting yet at the same time, refreshing.

When I climbed out of the soft shelled egg membrane layer, I found my friends also struggling to climb out. All of us are drenched in the goo like thing. I am still not sure what it was but it felt almost like as if it was those alcohol rubs which doctors use before an injection. We all dried up pretty fast and it didn't feel disgusting at all. In fact, we had nice skin, nice hair, even better than before.

We landed at this foresty island which was below our ride earlier on. I suppose it really was our parachute just that it didn't feel like a parachute. It felt more like we were put into a deep slumber.

The next moment which I recall was that I was at this library trying to find an important book. We were searching around quite frantically for that book.

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That was when I suddenly woke up!  I'm not even sure if I ever found that book. lol

It has been a long while since I had weird dreams like this. I haven't been having dreams for a quite awhile and I am really sad about it. Dreams were my source of creativity; or at least, I think it is.

Strange but Pretty Awesome Dream!

5/10/2013
Chilly Autumn

Hello. I'm listening to Brookland Radio, United Kingdom and XFM London as I'm writing this. My friend recommended XFM London to me. They have pretty good tunes so I recommend this two radio stations. I was listening to some local radio station that turned bad with tons of clubbing music which isn't really my sort of music before switching to this. I wish it was early in the morning when I found this website so I can enjoy tea with bread or something. Nonetheless, I can still do this tomorrow morning!

It has been raining the whole day, no wonder I feel so cold at home even when I didn't switch on the aircon or anything. Autumn usually isn't this cold unless it's raining though. I woke up in the afternoon today because I was busy playing Torchlight 2 with this friend through my secondary school friend who came to Tokyo for a holiday last month. I needed his help because I was playing veteran difficulty and was struggling at one of the quests! I got it done so I'm now on to Act 3 in the game! I'm a happy kid.

I almost didn't want to wake up because of this amazing dream I had! It was thanks to the recent Harry Potter Movie Marathon I had last few days. This has to be the best yet.

My favourite character in Harry Potter has to be Draco Malfoy. Despite him, sometimes being a total cowardly prick he can be, he is pretty nice deep down inside. I can tell.

I'll skip the details as to what sort of relationship we have in this little dream fanfiction, plot twist, additional character aka me, in this dream I had today. It's all fake and part of my fangirl-ish imagination. But it can really happen if I really was accepted to Hogwarts and if it really was real, y'know.

So, I bet almost everyone knows in the last part was Harry finding the Horcrux and going around London to find it. Well, knowing how reluctant Draco and their family is, to work for the Dark Lord. I'm basically protecting him and helping him along with the Order, though they are not really willing to but seeing on my account, they accepted.

We're hiding at this place that sort of looked like Leaky Cauldron but not exactly. I have no idea where we were but it's a Tavern for sure. Before we're both left alone, the order was planning something before dispatching off to fend off the death eaters. The place was dark and we're not suppose to make any noise but some odd reason,there was this 2 idiots place "Dota 2" with a computer in the Tavern. Mind you, this is a dream so anything can happen. They were making quite a ruckus so we got found and we had to fight back (obviously). Some people from the Order came back to help but somehow a Troll managed to get here and it was aiming for both me and Draco. But Draco was busy fighting off others so it's just me and the Troll with Draco behind me. We're back facing each other.

Then, this thing just had to happen, the climax of the dream. I don't remember any single spell! So, I was like, I want to cast this spell but have no recollection of the name of the spell, so obviously I can't cast anything! I was asking around, "Give me spell name, I don't remember any!" But they were too busy to reply me because they were busy casting their own spells. Strangely enough, I couldn't hear much of them calling out any spells in the dream except for the sound effects of the fighting with chairs breaking and all that jazz. I was basically left alone with not much time because the troll was going to attack.

The only thing I can think of is charmander's skill, "Ember". And I called out "Ember!" and surprisingly it worked, causing the troll to catch fire, then I waved my wand again and I managed to drag him into the computer into the game of Dota 2.

Then I worked up. Feeling totally amazed and happy! I haven't had such awesome amazing fantasy/adventure filled dreams in a long while. Usually when I have such dreams, they are pretty awesome and I'm really awesome in the dreams as well. That was the first thing I tweeted when I woke up in the morning, giving a brief description to what I dreamt just to keep the information in tact in my brain.

I even decided to cook pasta for lunch. It was also because I bought the ingredients yesterday when I was out grocery shopping. Though it was my first time making it, it turned out pretty well! I had quite a few compliments from the photo I took.

05/10/2013
Yummy homemade Pasta

It kinda looked like some photo grabbed from google but trust me, I took the photo. I mean, who puts chopped up crabstick, chopped up ham and Enoki mushroom in a Pasta. Well, perhaps only me. But that was the ingredients I had at the moment so I can't really argue. But no doubt it was yummy! Thanks to the instant pasta sauce of course. Even food stuff is so convenient in Tokyo. It's like they made stuff that is suitable for people who are staying alone. But really, I think there are many people in Tokyo who are staying alone or with a roommate.

Also, because I don't have a naggy dad who hates anyone who enters the kitchen, I am free to experiment with things I want to try. One of the perks of staying and living alone. :)

Tomorrow, I'm going to an Information Session at this American University. Though, my mother is still pretty reluctant of me staying here for university because of the extra incurred costs, I'm trying my best to turn things around. I'm pretty looking forward to it. I mean, I've been to college but never to university so I really wonder how it works and how a lecture actually works.

Cheers.